Synopses & Reviews
John Crowley's masterful
Little, Big is the epic story of Smoky Barnable, an anonymous young man who travels by foot from the City to a place called Edgewood — not found on any map — to marry Daily Alice Drinkawater, as was prophesied. It is the story of four generations of a singular family, living in a house that is many houses on the magical border of an otherworld. It is a story of fantastic love and heartrending loss; of impossible things and unshakable destinies; and of the great Tale that envelops us all. It is a wonder.
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"Ambitious, dazzling, strangely moving." Washington Post Book World
Review:
"The kind of book around which cults are formed, and rightly so. There's magic here." Los Angeles Herald Examiner
Review:
"A gorgeously written picararesque family saga...arguably Crowley's masterpiece. When 'you'll love this' isn't enough, I have proceeded to claim (as I'm claiming here) that
Little, Big is an important American novel that bears comparison to such works as
One Hundred Years of Solitude and Nabokov's
Ada."
James Hynes, Boston ReviewReview:
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Little, Big seems to me as miraculous as Shakespeare or Lewis Carroll: it is as if the book had always been there...as though John Crowley found it, and brought it home with him and to us."
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